Mind Quotes
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.Michel de Montaigne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.Kelly Le Brock
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.Orison Swett Marden
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.William Hazlitt
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.Richard M. DeVos
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.Marcus Tullius Cicero
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.Laurence J. Pete
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.Hans Margolius
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.Dean Hawkins
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.Unknown
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.Giuseppe Mazzini
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.Jack Youngblood
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.Wendell Willkie
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.Douglas Noel Adams
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.Ruth Ross
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.Florence Nightingale
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
